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WorksheetsRussia and the Independent Republics Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
St. Cyril helped develop what alphabet to help the Slavs read and write in their own spoken language.
English
Latin
Greek
Cyrillic
What mountain range that makes up most of Kyrgyzstan?
Tian Shan
Alps
Urals
Himalyan
A person who speaks two languages fluently is...
double talker
bilingual
multi-ethnic
monolinguistic
The capital of Tajikistan is...
Astana
Tian Shan
Dushanbe
Ismail Samani
The capital of Russia is...
Moscow
Stalingrad
Kiev
St. Petersburg
The capital of Uzbekistan is...
Baku
T'bilisi
Tashkent
Ashgabat
This region of Russia holds its largest reserves of timber and minerals.
Volga River Valley
Ural Mountains
Moscow Region
Siberia
What dance dates back to 1738 and has inspired many Russian composers such as Peter Tchaikovsky, who wrote the Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty?
Boombal
Bergamask
Ballet
Hermitage
Russian stories passed down orally from one generation to the next are called...
borscht
babushka
skazki
shchi
On May Day, Russians honor _____________.
Russian Women
Peter the Great
God
Russian workers
The Republics of the Caucasus are Armenia, Georgia, and __________.
Uzbekistan
Azerbaijan
Turkmenistan
Kazakhstan
The only Russian port on the Baltic Sea that stays free of ice year round is ________.
Moscow
Murmansk
St. Petersburg
Kaliningrad
In a communist country, who decides what goods will be produced?
producers and consumers acting on their own best interests
government officials
In a free-enterprise country, who decides what goods will be produced?
producers and consumers acting on their own best interests
government officials
What city is known as the "Venice of the North?"
St. Petersburg
Bishkek
Moscow
Paris
Which U.S. state is located at the same latitude as St. Petersburg?
Washington
Hawaii
Alaska
California
Russia is home to the _________River, the longest river in Europe.
Danube
Volga
Rhine
Po
What geographic feature gives the Caucasus Republics their name?
Caucasus River
Caucasus Mountains
Caucasus Plain
Lake Caucasus
Which of the Caucasus Republic sees the majority of its people follow Islam and not Christianity?
Armenia
Georgia
Azerbaijan
What is the largest of the Central Asian Republics by total area?
Kazakhstan
Uzbekistan
Turkmenistan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
